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The phrase "Intelligent Design," was coined by legal scholar Phillip E. Johnson in his 1991 book Darwin on Trial. Johnson's argument, and a key tenet of the ID movement, is that the premise of philosophical naturalism is false. The ID movement presents a case for "reasonable doubt" about the standard scientific model of evolution by natural selection. ID includes arguments that abiogenesis is impossible, that evolution cannot account for the complexity of life, and that the universe is "fine tuned" for living things in a manner that must have been by design.
Originally posted by The Big O
For me, intelligent design can mean aliens, this whole thing called life is actually a science project, we're in the matrix, ect. Does it mean God or something else?
Originally posted by The Big O
What the heck is intelligent design and how is it different than creationism?
Why is one form �okay� to teach in public school and the other not �okay?�
Which one is closer to Genesis?
Please, talk amongst yourselves
Originally posted by PeaceBeWithYou
Design and creation are two different things, so I suppose that intelligent design could go as far as to consider that evolution could be the mechanism the intelligence (God, for some) used.
Really shouldn't we be presenting all these ideas to kids in schools in attempts to teach them to think for themselves?
bleys
My personal opinion on it (and this is just my opinion) is that it allows people to continue to believe in god in spite of any scientific knowledge or advancement.
Originally posted by The Big O
So is ID somewhat like the diesm?
It's the belief that some hand/God had created some aspect of existance, but since that initial creation everything else has just sort of taken on a life of it's own. Literally.